Word: plebeians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russia is Chicken Kiev, a dish too seldom served in American homes or restaurants. Carl Jerome's The Complete Chicken (Random House; 247 pages; $12.95) should provide a rise in fare. The author, who has been a teaching and writing associate of James Beard's, ennobles the plebeian poulet in such great incarnalations as demi-deuil, en brioche and bollito misto, all sagely laid out. Jerome also offers some offbeat recipes for Southern fried chicken that will stir sizzling debate in Dixie...
...plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of caviar to Europe.) These overlooked aristocrats have been extracted from the stream by the University of California at Davis, which plans to breed them in vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop the advanced Soviet aquacultural, or fish-farming, program; he defected to the U.S. last year and joined the Davis staff. Among other things, Academician Doroshov discovered a way to speed up the sturgeon's maturity cycle, from...
...owned and ran Europe. Few of Rubens' paintings, except the altarpieces-the cherub-borne Madonnas rising into the infinite blue gauze of heaven, the squirming cascades of rosy, tormented flesh in hell, the marmoreal dead Christs and grandly virile Apostles-were meant to be seen by a plebeian eye. They hung on palace walls, firmly reminding the autocrats of Catholic Europe-Habsburg and Gonzaga, Stuart and Medici-that absolute power is absolutely delightful. Rubens was one of the greatest political artists who ever lived, but he had nothing to do with our modern idea of the engage painter...
Snob Appeal. In its assault on the U.S., Perrier faces an exquisitely tricky marketing problem. It must shed some of its aristocratic image to gain acceptance in the plebeian American supermarket-but not so much that it loses its sales-winning snob appeal. Perrier's current U.S. price will be cut by 20% or 30%. For convenience, the water will be sold in bottles of six-packs, just like beer. The company intends to launch an introductory $4 million advertising blitz featuring Orson Welles, and will aim a special pitch at the youth market...
...wife Anna, 32, a stunningly attractive, quick-witted former Sydney Daily Mirror reporter, whom he married in 1967. Six years ago, in London, Anna was the target of a kidnap attempt in which the wife of a Murdoch lieutenant was murdered. Murdoch did not stop his plebeian practice of taking the subway to work every day, but he hired bodyguards...